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In GB, there are 2 major political parties: the conservative party, actually the majority party, and the labour party, representing the minority party, so the opposition.

According to Laski’s quotation, a British political theorist of the 20-century and the chairman of the labour party during 1945 to 1946, “only two parties hold serious attention of the electoral body”.

The opposition is defined as a political party, which doesn’t belong to the majority party and thus opposing it.

In Great Britain, the opposition has a particular status.

Indeed, Great Britain doesn’t recognize the parties’ status in term of a constitutional nature because it doesn’t have a written constitution.

Paradoxically, it’s one of the few democracies in the world to have no written constitution but to have an opposition very institutionalized.

Through our presentation, we are going to demonstrate that the opposition in GB doesn’t has just a political role but it participates to the well functioning of the legal English system.

About this case, Vedel, a French public law professor, says that “a democracy in the twentieth century, it’s an executive pressing the nation and controlled by a parliamentary opposition”.

In this presentation we are going to introduce an overview of the aspects in which the opposition plays a key role in the English legal system.